NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase II
Funds up to two years developing the most promising early-stage space-mission concepts that already cleared NASA's Phase I study.
NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts programme runs in three phases, and this is the second one. Phase I is a nine-month feasibility look at a visionary space concept; Phase II gives the most promising of those up to two years to go deeper and explore how they might actually get used, inside NASA or beyond it.
This round is issued as an appendix to NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate umbre…
Early-stage space-mission and technology concepts NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts programme has already advanced through a Phase I feasibility study, given up to two years to develop further and explore paths to use inside or beyond NASA; about seven awards are expected, with no closing date or award figures published.
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